THERE is a common misconception that children at community residents are orphans and easily adopted. They are not. Many have families and it is the priority of the Children’s Authority to reunite these children with their relatives.

So said chairman of the Board of Management of the Authority, Hanif Benjamin yesterday at a press conference at the Ministry of Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Port of Spain.

The press conference was called to clarify issues of adoption after president of the Rapidfire Kidz Foundation, attorney Kevin Ratiram appealed to the public to start adopting children in community homes at the Foundation’s Annual Gala Dinner on September 14.

Ratiram said, “Many of these children would never know what it feels like to sit on a father’s lap. They will never know what it feels like to fall asleep in their mother’s arms or wake up in their mother’s arms. They are destined to remain there (in orphanages) almost forever... Why is it they are not good enough to be part of us, part of our home, our families?”

Benjamin said, “It’s not that you can just walk in a community residence and say, ‘I like this one. Gimme this one. Or I like these two, put these two in a bag. It’s a process and it’s important to understand that process where a child must be freed.”

Why you should not read booklets about adoption

There are beautiful and less beautiful stories about adoption. But what are the stories of the people who have been adopted themselves? In the new podcast from 3FM Tussenuur (Human) Luc Sarneel talks to three guests who have been adopted about the positive and negative sides of adoption.

This focus on adoption is due to a web series that can be seen on the YouTube channel of NPO3: Ik Kom Niet Van Sri Lanka. In this series, Dinja Pannebakker from FunX, who was adopted from Sri Lanka shortly after her birth, investigates why she actually feels absolutely no need to look for her biological parents.

In fact, she almost developed an aversion to Sri Lanka, mainly due to the roots journey she made with her adoptive parents when she was around 13 years old. Pannebakker feels 100 percent Dutch. In the series, she therefore investigates to what extent origin determines your identity.

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The Department of W&CD and Mission Shakti (MS) have issued letters to all District Collectors in this regard.

he Department of Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti have decided to conduct mapping of orphan and children of single-parent throughout Odisha to bring them to the protective network of the society.

"The survey will be conducted with an aim to get an exact number of orphan children and children of single-parent living in the state and to bring them to the protective network of the society through the intervention of the government where ever required," the Women and Child Development department (W&CD) said in a statement.

The Department of W&CD and Mission Shakti (MS) have issued letters to all District Collectors in this regard.

The survey has to be made district-wise across the state by the Anganwadi workers engaged in the Anganwadi centres, the district functionaries like District Social Welfare Officer (DSWO) and District Child Protection Officer (DCPO) are to be entrusted to supervise the survey process.

EMPOWERYOU - Strengthen children and adolescents in care and adoptive families and prevent re-victimization

Violence, neglect, mistreatment and abuse in childhood and adolescence have dramatic consequences for those affected, and most of them suffer for a lifetime. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research supports research networks that develop evidence-based concepts for prevention, detection and therapy and test them in practice.

The majority of foster and adoptive children have experienced violence, neglect and / or abuse in their source family. With the help of third-party care, the danger of becoming a victim of violence again is not banished. On the contrary, foster and adoptive children have a significantly higher risk of becoming victims of mobbing and violence throughout their lives

The overall objective of the EMPOWERYOU association is to support care and adoption families, as well as children and adolescents in foreign placement, in coping with previous traumatic experiences and to counteract the risk of future harassment and violence experiences. The examined children and adolescents can be both perpetrators and victims of bullying, eg. B. at school or in the circle of friends and acquaintances. Bullying also includes the so-called cyber-bullying through new media and social networks. Based on the results obtained, tailor-made internet-based prevention programs will be developed and tested for their effectiveness. If these prove effective, they can be easily and inexpensively disseminated and used.

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The registration of a Specialised Adoption Agency (SAA) in Dimapur was revoked for allegedly not complying with central government guidelines with respect to Child Care Institutions (CCI) in India.

According to a press statement from Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, the license for Mother’s Hope (SAA), 7th mile, Model Village, Dimapur Nagaland was revoked and shut down for repeated default, failure to comply to the instruction and direction of State Government and Child Protection Services and failure to adhere to the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.

It also stated that Mother’s Hope was given enough time and consideration since the year 2015 to rectify their shortcomings and adhere to the rules and regulations, however, the home failed repeatedly to respond and comply with the notices issued.

An official from the social welfare department informed that on September 19 a Joint Action Committee took custody of 13 children under the care of the SAA while informing that its registration stands revoked.

“It was part of a country-wide exercise to examine Child Care Institutions taken up in the backdrop of the Muzaffarpur (Bihar) child abuse case in 2018,” the official said.

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A Swabian from India

The Bietigheim chef Krishna Bruhn comes from a children's home in India. German parents adopted him at the age of seven.

November 1981: Krishna Bruhn is born in Calcutta, India, in one of Mother Teresa's children's homes. He is seven months old when his German parents adopt him. With them he grows up in Freudental, today he lives in Bietigheim. He hardly remembers the time in India, it has only been a small part of his life. He is aware of his origins: "My parents played with open cards from the start, so there would have been nothing to hide." He knew nothing about his birth parents. It is difficult to get information from the children's homes in India. He has never tried.

At the age of 15, the 33-year-old began training as a cook in a Bietigheimer restaurant. Since then, he has been drawn to the city again and again. At the local "Lama Bar," Bruhn was a chef for over ten years. There he also met his life partner Kathrin Neubauer, "a true Bietigheimerin," as he proudly tells. With Neubauer he leads since December last year, the restaurant "Henry's" in the Bietigheim city center, Hauptstraße 54. The place they have named after Bruhn's middle name, which still comes from the children's home in Calcutta.

He has not been to India since those days. Although he is interested in a trip to his country of birth, but so far he had lacked the means and the energy that brought a reappraisal of his past with it. In addition Neubauer and Bruhn are expecting their first child, a son. "Of course he will be born in Bietigheim," he says with a smile.

JIND: A couple from Belgium (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Belgium) adopted 4-year-old girl named Anjali from a

shelter home in Kaithal district (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kaithal-district) on Wednesday.

Nijkrish, a Belgium-based social worker, and her husband Scoob Martin said, "We had two sons, but wanted to have an

adopted child. After having a daughter, our family is complete now. We will go back home with her."

Speaking about the next step, she said, "I am a social worker in Belgium. I will be taking time off to bring up my daughter till she

Foundling Daniël (9) from Hoorn starts the search for his biological parents

The now 9-year-old Daniël was found on March 11, 2010 in front of a doctor's surgery in Hoorn. Together with his adoptive parents, he begins a search for his biological father and mother nine years later.

As a newborn baby, Daniel was found in a box wrapped in a sleeping bag. The doctor who found him saw that the boy was healthy, but not much more than a day old. A call to the biological parents of the foundling did not produce anything at the time. Daniël got his name from the then mayor of Hoorn and was adopted.

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De nu 9-jarige Daniël werd op 11 maart 2010 aangetroffen voor de deur van een huisartsenpraktijk in Hoorn. Samen met zijn adoptie-ouders begint hij negen jaar later een zoektocht naar zijn biologische vader en moeder.

NEW DELHI: The Central Adoption Resource Authority has made it clear that as per law it is absolutely clear that any child

once adopted legally has the rights equal to that of a biological child. CARA's observations have come in response to a

circular of the railways shared on micro-blogging site Twitter (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Twitter) in connection

with a case where a Bengaluru based senior railway employee who applied for the UMID smart card

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/smart-card) for health facilities was told that only her first adopted child was